International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation

Informationen zum Autor Joan Loughrey is currently the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where her research interests include corporate law, corporate governance, ethics and the legal profession. Klappentext Examines the corporate governance role of English and Welsh lawyers from a legal! ethical and regulatory perspective. Zusammenfassung Joan Loughrey's examination of the corporate governance role of corporate lawyers in the UK offers an analysis of the changing structure of the legal profession from an ethical! legal and regulatory perspective. Developments in the USA! Canada and Australia are also taken into account. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The international perspective; 3. The roles of the corporate lawyer; 4. Identifying the corporate client; 5. The role of the corporate lawyer in shareholder litigation; 6. The corporate lawyer as director; 7. The regulation of the corporate lawyer; 8. The arguments against reform; 9. Reforming the role of the corporate lawyer; 10. The reform of the legal profession and corporate lawyers; 11. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Loughrey, Joan (University of Leeds) Loughrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521762557
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76255-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation; International Corporate Law an; International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law